Method for slicing



- Nov- 7, 1939. c. w. SAVERY METHOD FOR SLICING Filed Jan. 24, 1938 ORNEY.

y m w s w s M m w Patented Nov. 7, 1939 STATES PATENT oFFicE METHOD FOR SLICING Charles W. Savery, Denver, 0010.

Application January 24, 1938, Serial No. 186,599

2 Claims. (01. 146-219) This invention relates to improvements in slicopposite directions. Or the shafts can be spurlng machines, more particularly machines for geared together and one belt can drive either slicing mushrooms for canning. shaft and thus the desired opposite directions of Certain grades of mushrooms are sliced and rotation can be effected.

1' canned for market. The trade demands that such emu-On mushrooms be sliced vertically as this produces p Y a superior slice that is generally preferred. In use, an Operator fills the tank 5 With Water Various machines have been devised for slicing 25 to a predetermined level it Next mushrooms n' ushrooms but licing by hand has been ex 1 are fed into an end of the tank as at 5:1. AS tensively used up to the time of the present in r the knives, Which are Preferably keenly Sharp 10 s because dimculty has been t d and made of stainless steel to prevent rust, rotate in mechanically holding the mushrooms erect in the directions of meshing gears, the water is t produce vertical i caused to flow in a current as indicated by arrows .It is an object of the present invention to pro- The Water t r in a closed cycle of fl w vide a machine for slicing mushrooms vertically under the false tank-bottom 6 as shown y 15 and automatically. rows l9.

Another object is the provision of u h a Mushrooms normally float with their heads or Chine that will greatly speed the slicing operati buttons up and their stems down as illustrated with no damage to th tend r mushrooms in Figure 1. The current of water floats the erect Other objects and advantages reside in details mushrooms into Cutting-engagement With the 20 of design and construction that will be more fully knives w h are spa d nt y in los y disclosed in the following descri tion and in the ooaoting p each p comprising n upper drawing in which: and a lower knife. The pairs of coasting knives Figure 1 is a plan view of a, a hi b i t are spaced a distance to equal the desired thick- 35 cording to the present inve ti n; ness of a mushroom slice. The keen knives slice Figure 2 is a longitudinal section on line 2-2 he mus rooms as they float throu the knife of Figure 1; and assemblies and an optimum result is thus ef- Figure 3 is a cross section on line 3-3 of Figiected. The sliced product floats on the water ure 1. I surface at the discharge side of the knives as in- .)0 In the drawing reference character 5 denotes dicated at V y, machines bu t ooo 30 a tank or trough having a removable sectional ing to this invention can be used for slicing or false bottom 6 that is supported in vertically cutting other fruits, vegetables or the like, that spaced relation'to the true tank-bottom l, by can be floated. spacers 8. The sectional construction of the false bottom Across the tank, preferably positioned adjacent 6, permits it to be removed from the tank or 35 its longitudinal center, are journalled a pair of trough 5 for cleaning purposes. The stationary vertically spaced shafts 9 and m respectively, fin e s l3 d I4 p v t s ces o p eces of the each carrying a series of horizontally spaced mushrooms from remaining between the knives.

circular knives l2, positioned in upper and lower What I Claim and desire. 1'10. y Letters 40 coasting, vertically overlapping pairs. A comb- Patent is: i

like series of stationary fingers I3 is positioned The method of Slicing us s 0 t e like so that the fingers are between the knives on the Which Consists in f n the oo s in a shaft 9 and a second similar series offlngers [4 moving flow of liquid in Vertical position a d is positioned to place fingers between the knives through a slicing Zone While u us y p:

on the lower shaft 10. Ahood of any convenient smiling ve n closely spaced relation in ver 45 form such as shown at [5 i preferably placed tical planes in said zone to vertically slice the over the knives and may be supported on the mushrooms- H tank 5. 2. The method of slicing mushrooms or the like An outer end of each shaft is provided with Which consists vfioa he the mushrooms in a I means to transmit driving torque from suitable ov g fi 0f liquid ill-Vertical position to a 60 prime movers not shown, to the shafts which through a slicing zone while simultaneously roturn in opposite directions of rotation as inditating knives in opposite directions in vertical cated by thearrows. V-pulleys l6 have been planes in said zone to vertically slice the mushshown as mounted on the shafts to receive torque rooms.

from belts 21 and 28 respectively that run in CHARLES W. SAVERY. 55 

